title: Clarifying the enigma of energy, philosophically speaking.
abstract: Diverging philosophic worldviews of energy are revisited. The idea of energy as one phenomenon that is responsible for all things is contrasted with that of the mechanistic view of energy as part of causal processes. The idea of energy implied by Rogers' conceptual model is revisited in an attempt to lend clarity to the concept of energy as it is used in nursing science, especially from the perspective of the simultaneity paradigm.
authors.affiliation: City University of New York, New York, NY, USA.
authors.forename: Vidette
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Todaro-Franceschi
mesh_terms: D055598:Chemical Phenomena; D004734:Energy Metabolism; D006694:Holistic Health; D006808:Humanism; D006801:Humans; D033183:Interdisciplinary Communication; D016294:Models, Nursing; D009742:Nursing Theory; D010687:Philosophy, Nursing; D011209:Power, Psychological; D012586:Science; D012660:Semantics